Topics: Starter | Arithmetic

• David Payne, St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton
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• Thanks for some great resources which stimulate lots of ideas.
  Could you produce a calculator activity that includes the use of brackets, powers, squaring etc to encourage students to make use of functions on a scientific calculator?
• Mr Bedford's Year 8 Maths Class, Marshfields School, Peterborough
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• We have done a number of these and we find them hard but fun.
• Lukas Kiss, Kettlethorpe High School, Wakefield
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• We used 5--4 to get 9, and then loads of others based on the same idea.
• Mr Parsons, Chalfont Community College
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• A popular maths starter for my year 8 classes.
• Mr Tilston,
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• Great improvements made by S1 class today, their second time looking at @Transum's fab broken calculator activity.
• Andrew Turner, Twitter
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• A phenomenal Maths starter activity @Transum called 'The broken Calculator' #edtech #maths https://t.co/seM7bCnpzzhttps://t.co/nehJfS3Loc pic.twitter.com/taodXknZj1

  — Andrew Turner (@TeacherTurner1) February 24, 2017

• Karen Donnelly, Twitter
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• Y3 students are loving the broken calculator challenge this morning! #STEAM #don'tgiveup #GirlsWhoCode @Transum pic.twitter.com/oCw0B06F6h

  — Karen Donnelly (@KarenDonnelly16) June 29, 2017

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